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Role of Smart Batteries in Making Cities Resilient

Hurricane Maria created immense devastation in Puerto Rico, leaving the island and its people facing a long recovery process. Crucially, its electric grid suffered such widespread damage that, a month after the storm, 75 percent of the island remains without electricity, and it could take up to six months before all the power is restored. […]

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Tips For Utility Demonstrations, #2: Define The Benefit Of Distributed Stor[...]

Earlier this summer, Rocky Mountain Institute issued a report called Pathways For Innovation: The Role of Pilots and Demonstrations in Reinventing the Utility Business Model. The report outlines five macro themes that are emerging in demonstration projects around the country, as utilities adapt to growing DER penetrations. As a provider of distributed storage solutions to […]

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Tips For Utility Demonstrations, #1: Understand The Customer Experience

Earlier this summer, Rocky Mountain Institute issued a report called Pathways For Innovation: The Role of Pilots and Demonstrations in Reinventing the Utility Business Model. The report outlines five macro themes that are emerging in demonstration projects around the country, as utilities adapt to growing DER penetrations. As a provider of distributed storage solutions to […]

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Software Makes Storage Intelligent and Your Home Smarter

For years, software has made businesses smarter and more productive. Today, software is making our homes smarter, too: Nearly ten percent of North American households are equipped with some type of “smart home” technology.

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Growing Threat of Hacking Makes a Case for Distributed Storage

As the grid has become dependent on computers to manage its moment-by-moment dynamics, it also has become increasingly tied to the Internet.

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The ‘Tesla Effect’ Diminishes the True Value of Distributed Storage

Distributed storage can provide significant benefits to low-income residents, who spend a disproportionate amount of their income on energy from the grid.

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After Paris Pullout, States Will Lead the U.S. Energy Future

There are 3.3 million Americans at work in advanced energy jobs, many of them in manufacturing, and the number is growing.

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NEM 2.0 Increases Average Savings of a Home Solar System

200,000 California homes will add rooftop solar systems next year, and all of these new solar customers will be on NEM 2.0 and Time-of-Use.

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